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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface
Preface to the 2020 Edition
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
1. The Meaning of Symptoms and Disorders
2. The Personal and Social Meanings of Illness
3. The Vulnerability of Pain and the Pain of Vulnerability
4. The Pain of Living
5. Chronic Pain: The Frustrations of Desire
6. Neurasthenia: Weakness and Exhaustion in the United States and China
7. Conflicting Explanatory Models in the Care of the Chronically Ill
8. Aspiration and Victory: Coping with Chronic Illness
9. Illness unto Death
10. The Stigma and Shame of Illness
11. The Social Context of Chronicity
12. The Creation of Disease: Factitious Illness
13. Hypochondriasis: The Ironic Disease
14. The Healers: Varieties of Experience in Doctoring
15. A Method for the Care of the Chronically Ill
16. The Challenge of a Meaning-Centered Model for Medical Education and Practice
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